Stop 50 Aspen Glen Campground, Rio Grande NF, CO

 We were heading south from Buena Vista, CO on 285.  We were going to enter New Mexico and make our way toward Santa Fe.  We stopped at a National Forest Center to get a map of NF campsites.  The attendant asked us to reconsider and take 17 west, ultimately toward Chama.  We stopped an Aspen Glen and grabbed a decent site.  We later learned that there were some primo sites on the lower loop, down near the river.  In any event we had a nice stay here and we had a real surprise awaiting us.  We just didn't know it yet.

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